Ideas For Competitions Please – Win $100

Everton | Jan 18, 2006 | Comments


I should be receiving my first Adsense cheque next month and I want to give some of the money back to my readers.  One of the things I would like to do is introduce a monthly competition and I'd like to get your ideas as to the format.  The best idea will win a $100 voucher from an online store of the winner's choice, or equivalent amount in any other currency.

Key factors I'm looking for in competitions are:

- Matches the topics covered on this site
- Encourages people to visit Connected Internet to enter and to see other entries
- Fun to enter
- Easy to enter and for me to judge

If you think you have an idea then send it to me via email or leave your entry as a reply to this post.

Rules:
1. Only open to users with a Reader Account
2.  Multiple Entries Allowed
3. Competition Ends 16/2/06
4. My decision is final
5. Winner will receive a $100 voucher at an eTailer of their choice.  If this is not possible then $100 will be sent via transfer or paypal


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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • Drew
    How about posting several images of either new phones / prototypes, games, atrists, consols, characters etc. Whatever may be considered as "trendy" and or related to atricles / news found on this site. Have the descriptions / names of each image be assigned to a different picture or simply scattered in a seperate column. Users would have to match terms with the appropriate images. Descriptions / names can be found within articles.
    Just an idea
  • Everton Blair
    I like this idea as well. Keep the entries coming - this could get quite interesting
  • LoneSniper
    I thought of another idea. How about a scavenger hunt!! Virtually everyone has a camera phone now, so we could be told to go out and snap pictures related to a story and email them in. First one to email in all the 'clues' or 'items' wins. Slight problem is people might try and cheat via Google images, but I am sure some variation of this idea might work.
  • I was actually thinking of an easter egg contest of sorts. Basically, you leave a bread crumb (or keyword, could be via technorati tag) so people keep coming back and read your blog. After some time, the accumulated keywords will form a secret sentence. The keywords disappears after 24 hours of posting (or maybe just before you post your next entry.)
  • LoneSniper
    How about a vertical word search within an article. You could have a secret word of the day and the first letter of each word in a line could make up the secret word. I know it would take some doing as the formating for the text would have to be constant for all browsers and display sizes. But it could work and make people come to the site and most importantly read the site.
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